0 down vote favorite I am using UTF-8 encoding to display hindi fonts in servlet but hindi fonts are displaying in following format - शपथ à¤à¤¯ à¤à¤° à I am using following code- response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8"); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); t.merge(context, writer); String s = writer.toString(); in servlet response.getCharacterEncoding() // it is showing ISO-8859-1 by default and i have set both character encoding UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 in both jsp and servlet but problem was not resolved. One thing is more, i am using mozila firefox and in it character encoding is Unicode. is there any effect on our output because of mozila's character encoding. Please help me?